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DevOps & Software Development ToolsCompetitive Landscape and Market Trends v2.0 – June 2017

Back in 2011, Marc Andreessen somewhat famously wrote “software is eating the

world,” putting forward the belief we’re in the midst of a dramatic technological shift in

which software-defined companies are poised to dominate large swathes of the

economy. Over the intervening six years, accelerated by the cloud and a growing

comfort with outsourcing human activates to machines, software has become

ubiquitous. With examples like Amazon displacing traditional retailers or a proprietary

application for player evaluation named “Carmine” helping to lead the Boston Red Sox

to three titles since 2004, the power of software cannot be understated.

Software is not only disrupting business models in place for centuries (or 86 years of

baseball futility), but it also is enabling incumbent vendors across disparate industries

to improve product offerings, drive deeper engagement with customers and optimize

selling and marketing efforts. Most industries (financial services, retail, entertainment,

healthcare) and large organizations now derive a great deal of their competitive

differentiation from software. As Andreessen wrote, “the days when a car aficionado

could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software

content.”

But as software has brought benefits, it has also brought increasing demands for

business agility – and the software industry itself has been changed. The rapid pace of

innovation has required software developers to scrap old methods (waterfall) in favor of

DevOps and other “continuous delivery” methods, ushering in a new set of tools. The

explosion of BYOD within the enterprise has changed software development from

desktop-focused to mobile. Widespread adoption of the cloud and SaaS delivery

models has brought automation and microservices.

These trends, and others, have given rise to both a new class of emerging leaders and a

wave of acquisition activity by incumbent vendors. Once a sleepy market, DevTools is

exciting again! In this report, we examine some of these trends, as well as the emerging

companies at the forefront of innovation.

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DevOps & Software Development Tools Market Trends & Landscape

The DevTools Market Has Reemerged

“Today's large John Deere tractors have more lines of code than early space shuttles.”

Samuel Allen (CEO, Deere & Company)

“Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.”

Norman Augustine (Under Secretary of the Army)

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Our View of the Macro Trends Impacting DevOps & DevTools

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│ Cloud & SaaS Delivery

│ Iterative Development

│ Open Source Software

│ Microservices

│ Citizen Developers

A fundamental change to the way software is built, sold, delivered and integrated

Brought about the collision of Development and ITOM (Ops) in the modern enterprise

More of a cultural shift than a process change

Iterative development methods necessitate continuous everything: development, quality,

code integration, releases, performance management …

The availability of quality applications, components and libraries via freely-available,

community-maintained code has caused a massive disruption to some segments of the

market, while enabling the rise of commercial open source for the enterprise

Breaking development projects into reusable components has the potential to yield

significant improvement in development efficiency, speed and reliability

Platforms which enable non-developers to build new applications has enabled business

users to solve unmet IT demands through the creation of “grassroots” apps


Market Trends and Implications

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As much a cultural shift as a development methodology, iterative development and DevOps

changes the way development and ITOM teams interact, fusing the two previously separate

functions into a paradigm where developers are responsible for ensuring their code actually works

in production

The DevOps cultural shift is has brought a focus on collaboration and an agile (or chaotic!)

approach to the development lifecycle, marked by iteration and testing – quality is a continuous

process (rather than “assurance” after the fact) and part of every stage in DevOps environments

At the tooling level, DevOps mandates the automation of releases (ARA: Nolio, UrbanCode,

XebiaLabs), code integration/versioning (GitHub, CloudBees) and performance management

(APM: AppDynamics, New Relic), but it has also brought a revitalization of the broader tool chain,

setting in motion a period of change and innovation as “heritage” vendors (HP/Mercury,

IBM/Rational, Microsoft) are less able keep pace with the emergence of technologies built for an

iterative world in ALM (Atlassian) and Test Automation (Perfecto, SauceLabs, Tricentis, Xamarin)

Iterative Development (DevOps, CD …)

• DevOps has migrated from cloud to enterprise

• Automation is mandatory

• Developers responsible for quality

The rise of the cloud and SaaS delivery models represents perhaps the mos fundamental change

to the way software is built, sold, delivered and integrated since the migration of models from

mainframe to client/server

The shift of workloads from on-premises, IT-managed resources to cloud infrastructure (AWS,

Azure, IBM Softlayer) brought a series of fundamental changes to the application development

market, notably allowing the collision of the development and IT Operations Management

disciplines in the modern enterprise

The cloud brought a new set of challenges for application owners and developers (particularly

around the deployment and monitoring of applications which reside in the cloud), but also

enabled a wave of efficiencies and automation technologies, allowing for exponential increases in

quality (test automation) and collaboration

Cloud & SaaS Delivery

• Major catalyst for change in tooling

• Enabled Dev + ITOM to become DevOps

• New markets for deployment and monitoring


Market Trends and Implications continued

Open Source

• Compelling economic and productivity benefits

• Compliance is an ongoing challenge

• Has commoditized some application segments

• Commercial OS vendors lead several categories

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Free, open source DVCS designed to

handle small to large projects

Vendors: GitHub, Atlassian,

CollabNet, Canonical (LaunchPad)

SVN is a VCS distributed as open

source under the Apache License

Vendors: CollabNet

Free, open source DVCS designed to

handle small to large projects

Vendors: Atlassian (Bitbucket), Fog

Creek (Kiln), RhodeCode

Open source library for managing

database schema changes

Vendors: Datical

Free, open source compute, storage

and networking resources control

Vendors: Rackspace, Red Hat,

Cloudscaling, Dell, IBM

Open source deployment automation,

scaling and containerized application

management

Vendors: Google

Open source deployment

automation in software containers

Vendors: GitHub

Open source acceptance test

automation for other software

Vendors: GitHub

Salt is a Python-based open source

configuration management & remote

execution engine

Vendors: SaltStack

Free, open-source framework for

continuous integration

Vendors: ThoughtWorks

Build management & continuous

integration, free for open source

projects

Vendors: Jetbrains

Free, open source automation server

written in java

Vendors: Atlassian, Datadog, JFrog

Open source software package

management automation

Vendors: JFrog

Open source automation for

provisioning, configuration

management and deployment

Vendors: Red Hat

Free, open source record/playback

tool for authoring software tests

Vendors: Perfecto, SauceLabs,

Tricentis

InfrastructureConfiguration Management

ContainersTesting

Build Automation & CISCM

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The availability of quality applications, components and libraries via freely-available, community-

maintained code has caused a massive disruption to some segments of the market, while

enabling the rise of commercial open source vendors for the enterprise

Gartner estimates 95% of enterprises use open source within mission-critical segments of their IT

portfolios, particularly within infrastructure areas (databases and app servers), as well dev tools

and frameworks; this growing use of open source has brought compliance challenges

Historically, open source adoption was driven by cost considerations and typically signaled the

commoditization of a market segment – more recently however, spurred on by the rise of cloud

and the economies of collaborative development, open source projects are now competing with

proprietary efforts from the outset (SCM, build automation, test automation) or preceding them to

market altogether (containers)


Market Trends and Implications continued

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The emergence of low-code and no-code technologies is not necessarily a new entrant to the

market – RAD (Rapid Application Development) methods using minimal planning in favor of rapid

prototyping and commodity code generation have been around since at least the 1980s, but

without meaningful market traction

As demands on IT organizations have become acute, the concept of quickly developing feature-

rich applications has understandably regained footing, and given rise to both low-code

technologies targeting developers and IT (Mendix, QuickBase, Salesforce), and no-code platforms

which enable business users to create “grassroots” apps and circumvent the IT pipeline entirely

(QuickBase, Salesforce, IFTTT)

Low-Code & Citizen Developers

• Business users resolving IT bottlenecks, ex IT

• Developers generating code quickly

• Functional gap between control and productivity

Application development has begun a successful transition from the traditional approach of

building new applications from scratch to a development model based on small, reusable

microservices – bringing significant improvement in development efficiency, speed and reliability

This approach is not new; the reuse of discrete application services first arose under the banner

of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the mid-2000s and despite a wave of consolidation by

IBM, Oracle, Software AG and TIBCO, the service-oriented approach largely failed as many of the

required building blocks were not yet in place: application containers (which abstract at the

application or service level vs. hypervisor-based virtualization); APIs; and scalable, elastic compute

infrastructure (AWS et al.)

In the microservices paradigm, managing the connectivity between services and eliminating

performance bottlenecks is critical, and has given rise to an important class of infrastructure

software covering API Management (CA/Layer 7, Intel/Mashery, MuleSoft) and containers

(CoreOS, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher Labs)

Microservices

• A new take on an old theme, but this one works

• Relatively early innings

• Infrastructure building blocks now in place

• Connectivity and management are critical

Software Development Tools Market Trends & Landscape

Market Trends and Implications: Major Beneficiaries

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ALM & Collaboration Atlassian (public)

GitHub

Rally (acquired by CA)

Trello (acquired by Atlassian)

Application Performance Management AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco)

Dynatrace

NewRelic (public)

Application Release Automation Automic (acquired by CA)

Datical

Nolio (acquired by CA)

Phurnace (acquired by BMC)

UrbanCode (acquired by IBM)

XebiaLabs

Containers CoreOS

Docker

Low-Code & No-Code OutSystems

Progress

Mendix

QuickBase (acquired by WCAS)

Test Automation Perfecto

Sauce Labs

SmartBear (acquired by Francisco)

Soasta (acquired by Akamai)

Tricentis (acquired by Insight)

Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft)

$5.6 billion

$3.7 billion

$636 million

$480 million

$400 million*

│ Cloud & SaaS Delivery

│ Iterative Development

│ Open Source Software

│ Microservices

│ Citizen Developers

*451 Research estimated value

Initial Public Offering

Adobe (Nitobi)

Appcelerator

Apple

AT&T

BlackBerry

DSI

Duda

Electric Cloud

Embarcadero

Formotus

Gizmox

Good Technology

Google

HP

IBM

InfoGin

Infosys

Infragistics

July Systems

Kony

Magic Software

Magnet Systems

mBlox

Microsoft

Mobinex

Moofwd

MoSync

Motorola

Movidilo

mPortal

M Project

Netbiscuits

Netsize

Nokia

Oracle

Pegasystems

Rocket Software

Salesforce

SAP

Sencha

Service2 Media

Software AG

Spring

Trigger.IO

Usablenet

Verivo

Webalo

8

BMC

CA

IBM

Idera

Micro Focus

Microsoft

Oracle

Parasoft

Rogue Wave

Sparx Systems

SAP

Software AG

Adobe

Axure

Balsamiq

InVisionApp

Infragistics

iRise

JustInMind

Marvel

Microsoft

Mockingbird

The Qt Company

UXPin

Requirements Definition & Management

Accompa

Blueprint

codeBeamer

Digité

Gatherspace

IBM

Jama

Micro Focus

Microsoft

Perforce

(Seapine)

PTC

ReQtest

TechExcel

Versata

Architecture & Design Tools


Market Landscape: Functional View

Development Environments

Cloud9 IDE

CloudBees

CodeRun Studio

Compuware

Ebase Xi

Genuitec

IBM

Jetbrains

Koding

Micro Focus

Microsoft

Progress

RhodeCode

Rogue Wave

Xojo

Affinic

Allinea Software

Apple (Xcode)

Araxis

Digia Qt

FusionDebug

IBM

LINQPad

Microsoft

Oracle

Rogue Wave

SlickEdit

SmartBear

Sublime Text

Telerik

ZeroTurnaround

Atlassian

Bugzilla

CollabNet

GitHub

GitLab

IBM

Lighthouse

Perforce

ReQtest

Rogue Wave

Serena

Synopsys

TechExcel

Unfuddle

BlackDuck

Palamida

Protecode

Rogue Wave

Sonatype

Synopsys

Atlassian

Buildbot

CircleCI

CloudBees

Codeship

Jetbrains

Shippable

Travis CI

Development

Source Editors & Debuggers SCM & Version Control

Mobile Development Platforms [see also Shea & Company’s Enterprise Mobility Market Taxonomy]

Test Management

Andagon

HP

IBM

Idera (Gurock)

Jama

Micro Focus

Perforce (Seapine)

PTC

QASymphony

QMetry

ReQtest

TechExcel

Test Collab

Tricentis

Zephyr

Akamai (SOASTA)

Automation Anywhere

BrowserStack

CA (BlazeMeter)

CloudShare

CrossBrowserTesting

HP

BMC Software

CA Technologies

Chef

CSC (ServiceMesh)

IBM

Keynote

LoadStorm

Micro Focus (Serena)

Microsoft

Neotys

Oracle

Electric Cloud

HP

IBM


Panaya

Parasoft

Perfecto Mobile

Progress (Telerik)

QFS

Qmetry

Ranorex

Microsoft

MidVision

PuppetLabs

SaltStack

Sauce Labs

SeleniumHQ

Skytap

SmarteSoft

SmartBear

Synopsys

TestPlant

VMware

XebiaLabs

Tricentis

Verisium

WebPerformance

Worksoft

QA, Testing & Deployment

Test Automation

Application Release Automation / Continuous Deployment

Application Lifecycle Management

Atlassian

Basecamp

CA (Clarity)

Changepoint

Clarizen

codeBeamer

HP (PPM Center)

IBM (Rational)

Jama


Microsoft (TFS)

Pivotal

PTC (MKS Integrity)

Redmine

Rocket Software

SAP (RPM)

Tempo.io

Workfront

Zoho

Andagon

Atlassian

CA (Rally)

CloudShare

CollabNet

Digité

Hansoft

HP

MaestroDev

Micro Focus (Borland)

OpsHub

Oracle

Parasoft

Planbox

Scrumy

TaskTop

TechExcel (DevSuite)

Tempo.io

VersionOne

ALM & Software-Focused PPM

Enterprise DevOps and Agile Focused ALM

Atlassian

CollabNet

GitHub

Jama

Perforce

Planview

Slack

Unfuddle

Open Source

Management

Developer Collaboration

UI / UX Design & PrototypingEnterprise Architecture

Continuous

Integration

Application Prototyping

Alpha Software

Atego

CA

IBM

Idera

Infragistics

iRise

Microsoft

MID

Oracle

Progress

Rocket

Alpha Software

Appian

Capriza

Caspio

Catavolt

Databasify

Google

IFTTT

Indra Systems

K2

Kintone

Microsoft

Mendix

MIOsoft

NTT

Oracle

OrangeScape

OutSystems

QuickBase

Progress

Red Hat

Salesforce

SAP

Sencha

ServiceNow

Snappii

Software AG

TrackVia

Webalo

WebRatio

Wizehive

Zoho

Low Code (RAD) to No-Code (aPaaS)

Developer Collaboration

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Requirements Definition & Management

Architecture & Design Tools


Market Landscape: Notable Vendors

Development

QA, Testing & Deployment

Application Lifecycle ManagementApplication Prototyping

Low Code (RAD) to No-Code (aPaaS)

Development Environments Source Editors & Debuggers SCM & Version Control

Open Source

Management

Continuous

Integration

Mobile Development Platforms [see also Shea & Company’s Enterprise Mobility Market Taxonomy]

Test Management

ALM & Software-Focused PPM

Enterprise DevOps and Agile Focused ALM

Enterprise Architecture UI / UX Design & Prototyping

Test Automation

Application Release Automation / Continuous Deployment

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Market Landscape: Leaders in the DevOps Stack

Open Source: Appium, Cucumber, JMeter, Selenium

Testing & Quality

Open Source: Liquibase

Deployment & Release Automation

Open Source: Ant, Artifactory, Bamboo, CruiseControl, Gradle,

Jenkins, Maven

Build Automation & Continuous Integration

Open Source: Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Salt

Configuration Management & Provisioning

Open Source: Git, Mercurial, Subversion

Version Control & Repository (SCM)

Open Source: Nagios

Application Performance Management

Collaboration & Lifecycle Management


Notable Acquisitions by Incumbent Vendors

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ALM

Requirements

Architecture &

Design

Development

Test

Release

Development

QA / Test

Date Acquirer Target EV

01/19/17 $800m*

03/22/16 $288m

12/10/15 IPO $462m

05/27/15 $480m

02/03/14 $36m*

04/07/11 $302m

Accelerating Demand for Business Agility

Software is now a key competitive differentiator across industries,

including hardware/devices, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare

and defense – to some extent, all companies are software companies

today

With that backdrop, the demand for business agility and response-time to

changing market trends and demands has only accelerated, particularly in

the fast-evolving context of cloud, mobile and social environments – the

traditional 18-24 month development cycles no longer work

Growing Industry Recognition that Waterfall Methods Don’t Work

Traditional “Waterfall” based software development methods (including

Rational’s Unified Process), focused on a top-down, step-method approach

with explicit handoffs from strategy to planning to execution have often

wasted time and money

The Standish Group found that only 14% of Waterfall-method projects

were “successful” versus 42% for Agile projects, and with iteration times

measured in weeks instead of years

This has driven a secular shift from Waterfall and RUP to Agile

development methodologies (Agile, DevOps, Kanban, Lean, among many

others); as one proxy, the Agile ALM market is growing at 25%-30% as

compared to 3.9% for ALM overall (Gartner, 2013)

ALM Market: A Period of Redefinition and Innovation

The emergence of Agile methodologies has required a fundamental

change to the traditional toolsets, and allowed the rise of a new

generation of Agile-focused vendors in segments, including ALM, ASQ and

SCM, which in the aggregate represent more than $6bn in spend (IDC,

2014)

Constant innovation in methodologies (DevOps, Kanban), use cases

(mobile, social, SaaS), delivery (on-premise, hybrid, cloud) and

development organization complexity (larger projects, distributed teams)

has shifted competitive advantage to more nimble, upstart vendors; the

easy deployment of these tools has driven an “up through the floorboards”

land-and-expand displacement of incumbents

Application Lifecycle Management Market Trends & Key Drivers ALM Market Growth ($ billions)

Sources: Gartner, IDC, Standish Group, 451 Research

*: 451 Research estimated value

Notable Market Activity

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ALM: Agile Management & Collaboration are Driving Innovation

$2.0

$4.4

2014 2023

9% CAGR

$20.0

$219.7

$546.7

2010 2015 2020


12/01/16 $636m

10/30/13 $158m

06/03/13 n/a

03/24/13 $42m

04/22/13 n/a

2010-2012$40m*Phurnace

Sources: Gartner, IDC, Nelson Hall, 451 Research


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ARA: After an Initial Wave of M&A, New Leaders are Emerging

Emergence of Application Release Automation

Software is the engine that powers all industries, requiring organizations

to excel at software delivery; however, creating and delivering software

doesn’t seem to be enough anymore

The ARA market has emerged as a formal set of solutions to address the

specific requirements of enterprises for deploying Agile-based or web-

based applications; ARA is being driven by companies’ need to: i) push

releases quickly and easily across all phases of the application lifecycle;

ii) replace manual scripting with automation; and iii) establish and

encourage collaboration between developers and admins

Market Maturity Driving M&A and New Entrants

While new vendors continue to emerge, the market has reached a level

of maturity where large vendors are recognizing the strategic nature and

value of ARA tools; heritage ALM vendors are beginning to add

functionality in ARA either organically or through acquisitions of

companies or code

Continued Solution Integration and Feature Development

Although the majority of ARA tools are currently being used in a targeted

fashion to address the application release process with a distinct set of

actions, integration into an organization’s larger DevOps, IT service

support management and other IT operations management tools and

process strategies will likely be this space’s next step

ARA developers will also broaden their view of continuous delivery, which

will extend across all environments, including databases, middleware

and application servers

ARA as Anchor for DevOps

By 2020, Gartner estimates that 50% of global enterprises will have

implemented at least one ARA solution, which is up from 10% today.

Demand for higher-quality and higher-velocity application releases will

continue to drive the adoption of ARA solutions, as it becomes

increasingly integral to enterprises’ growth and execution strategy.

39% CAGR

Market Trends & Key Drivers Market Growth ($ billions)



03/16/17 n/a

03/08/16 n/a

02/02/16$55mCapital Raise



06/12/13 n/a

Demand for Agility and Responsiveness Push the Market

The macro trends of “digital transformation” and increasing demand for

higher velocity releases – against a backdrop of overly-strapped IT

organizations – has provided the underpinnings for technologies which

help developers quickly create applications, and platforms which allow

business analysts and other non-developers to develop apps on their own

Rapid application development (RAD) as a discipline has existed for quite

some time, but as a market-ready technology had not taken off until

recently, under the new banners of low-code, no-code and aPaaS

Non-technical users are building and managing applications that run

from general purpose to sophisticated and scalable, using “drag-and-

drop” composition for quick UI creation across mobile, web and cloud

The Issue of Control is Not Yet Settled

Vendors have generally fallen into two distinct groups: “high-productivity”

platforms supporting a defined set of use cases through a proprietary

stack which IT generally does not control (Force.com, QuickBase) and

“high productivity” vendors supporting development of sophisticated

applications within the control environment of IT (Mendix, OutSystems)

Gartner predicts that by 2019, delivery of both high-productivity and

high–control capabilities will be required for top providers, and

ultimately, low-code development platforms will need additional

governance in support of enterprise deployments

Fragmented Market, Ripe for Investment and Consolidation

The low-code, no-code market is highly fragmented, with a broad group of

vendors generally segmented along productivity / control lines

While capital markets activity has been limited, we believe recent activity

indicates an awakening market

Recent fundraises by K2, Mendix and Outsystems highlight the

growth opportunity in the developer focused markets

The strong revenue retention characteristics of platform vendors

make for attractive acquisition targets (e.g. WCAS/QuickBase)


Sources: Forrester, Gartner, IDC, 451 Research



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Low and No-Code: An Awakening Market

$1.7$2.6

$3.9

$6.1

$10.3

$15.5

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

55% CAGR


03/29/17 $200m

01/23/17 $165m

09/07/16 $8,800m

02/24/16 $400m*

10/22/14 $263m

02/19/14 $350m

Large and Growing Market

Test Management & Automation market growth driven by increased

application complexity and strategic factors like corporate image and

security; according to Gartner at $2 billion, growing at 4.5% CAGR

Agile and continuous delivery practices are driving the use of open-

source tools which are disrupting the application testing market

Overreliance on Manual Testers has Remained an Enduring Challenge

The growth of DevOps and CD has created a strong need to increase

automation – but manual testing is still the largest portion of time spent

on a typical development project – 80% of testing is manual (Gartner)

and $32 billion is spent annually on QA/Test Services (IDC/Nelson Hall)

The fundamental shift to iterative development methods has strained

software development processes heavily dependent on manual testing –

much of this work is redundant, with repeat testing and other

inefficiencies leading to time loss

Manual testing remains important piece of the delivery chain, particularly

for the long tail of test cases, but use of automation brings faster cycle

times and an increase in coverage – as a result the “mix” will shift

Continuous Delivery Requires Continuous Quality

Testing is no longer a point-in-time event in the development lifecycle

managed by a dedicated group of focused QA resources; quality

assurance is now embedded in all stages of development – requiring a

new class of tooling

Automation allows scaling of testing to fit disparate needs, but without

the lead time needed to increase testing infrastructure

Market Implications

Enterprise portfolios contain a broad array of application types, and test

automation vendors are broadening their solutions sets in response

Adoption of test management and automation will frequently serve as

the first step toward the adoption of more advanced automation tools

Sources: Gartner, IDC, Nelson Hall, 451 Research



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Test Management & Automation: Enabler and Beneficiary of the Iterative Revolution

(software business)


Enterprise EV /

Ann. date Target Acquirer value CY Rev

03/16/17 ManyWho Boomi - -

02/16/17 RedTail HighJump Software - -

01/23/17 Tricentis Insight Venture Partners $165 4.7x [b]

01/19/17 Apiary Oracle - -

01/18/17 Twitter (Fabric assets) Google - -

01/11/17 Apperian Arxan Technologies - - [b]

12/19/16 Rightware Thundersoft $68 -

09/20/16 BlazeMeter CA Technologies $60 [b] 12.0x [b]

09/08/16 Apigee Google $555 5.3x

09/07/16 HPE (software assets) Micro Focus $8,800 2.8x

08/29/16 Calm.io Nutanix $9 -

08/02/16 AppMachine Endurance International $23 -

06/23/16 Red Hat 3scale Networks $27 [b] 6.8x [b]

05/12/16 Tech Mpire Ltd Appenture $0 -

05/05/16 Vonage Holdings Nexmo $230 3.3x [b]

05/04/16 Adesso Smarthouse Media $28 1.6x

05/02/16 Qlik Industrial CodeBox $3 -

03/22/16 Serena Software Micro Focus $540 3.3x

03/08/16 Intuit (QuickBase business) Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe - -

02/24/16 Xamarin Microsoft $400 [b] 10.7x [b]

01/27/16 ArcTouch Grey Group $25 [b] 1.7x

01/18/16 Appcelerator Axway Software - -

01/13/16 TestPlant Carlyle Group - -

12/18/15 StackEngine Oracle - -

11/30/15 Corona Labs (assets) Perk.com $2 -

11/19/15 Bebop Technologies Google $380 -

10/21/15 RoboVM Xamarin - -

10/16/15 Ansible Red Hat $126 -

10/12/15 Syncsort Clearlake Capital - -

10/07/15 Embarcadero Technologies Idera - -

06/29/15 BNOTIONS Symbility Solutions $3 -

06/08/15 Verivo Software (assets) Appery $2 [b] -

05/27/15 Rally Software CA Technologies $480 5.5x

04/14/15 Verold Box $5 -

10/22/14 Telerik AD Progress Software $263 4.4x

10/07/14 Rounded Labs MoPowered Group plc $0 -

09/18/14 FeedHenry Red Hat $82 -

07/23/14 Axeda PTC $170 -

07/01/14 EIBS Ideagen $2 -

06/16/14 Atego PTC $50 2.5x

06/09/14 Modulus Progress Software $13 6.3x

02/19/14 Coverity Synopsys $350 3.9x [a]

01/08/14 Compuware (Changepoint assets) Marlin Equity Partners $160 0.7x

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Acquisition Activity

Select Transactions ($ million)

As business agility demands pressure software developers to deliver

custom, high-quality products in shorter periods of time, IT

organizations will continue to migrate to Agile and DevOps

methodologies which will drive a wave of consolidation

Consolidation within Release Automation (a DevOps prerequisite) is

already well underway which we expect to continue as the market

evolves and DevOps becomes even more mainstream; additionally, we

expect the larger IT management software vendors to make strategic

acquisitions in other Agile/DevOps driven market segments, including

ALM, APM and Automated Testing, among others

Driven by cloud and mobile initiatives, API Management should also

see continued consolidation

M&A Volume by Year

Source: Shea & Company and 451 Research

[a] Source: The 451 Group

Other data from publicly available sources

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Close Date Company Participating Investor(s) Description Amount

04/11/17 OverOps Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures Production code debugging $31

03/23/17 Mashape Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Index Ventures API gateway, developer portal and API analytics $18

01/23/17 Tricentis Insight Venture Partners Testing, test data management and service virtualization $165

12/13/16 ObservePoint BYU Cougar Capital, Mercato Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Stoneway Capital JavaScript identification, analysis and testing $19

12/07/16 Face++ CCB International Asset Management, Comet Labs, Foxconn Technology Group Facial detection, recognition and analysis $100

11/29/16 SonarSource Insight Venture Partner Application code quality management $45

11/15/16 Sauce Labs Adams Street Partners, Centerview Capital Technology, IVP Automated web and mobile application testing $71

10/20/16 Relayr Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Munich Re/HSB Ventures, Munich Ventures IoT application development $23

10/03/16 Face++ Foxconn Technology Group Facial detection, recognition and analysis $20

09/14/16 Applause Accenture, Berlin Tech, CS, Egan, LVP, Mesco, Möller, QuestMark, Scale, GS, Windcrest Crowdsourced software testing $35

05/26/16 Lightbend Bain Capital, Blue Cloud, Intel Capital, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, Shasta Reactive application development platform $20

05/17/16 BigPanda Battery, Mayfield, Pelion Venture Partners, Sequoia IT event management automation $21

05/09/16 Pivotal Software EMC, Ford, GE Ventures, Microsoft, VMware Agile application development tools $653

04/14/16 Onshape Andreessen Horowitz, Commonwealth Capital, NEA, North Bridge Venture Partners Product design and web application development tools $105

03/24/16 Takipi Lightspeed, Menlo Server testing and quality assurance tools $15

02/04/16 Sonatype Accel, Bay Partners, Canvas Venture, GS, HWVP, Morgenthaler, NEA Data services and application development tools $30

02/02/16 OutSystems North Bridge Rapid application development tools $55

11/17/15 Blueprint Software Centana Growth Partners Agile development tools, integration and reporting $23

11/11/15 Perfecto Mobile Carmel Ventures, FTV, Globespan Capital Partners, TCV, Vertex Automatic mobile testing $35

11/06/15 Docker AME Cloud, Benchmark, Coatue, Greylock, Ignition, Insight, Lightspeed, Lowercase Code building, scaling, deployment and load balancing $113

09/09/15 Chef Amplify, Battery, Citi Ventures, DFJ, HP Ventures, Ignition, Mellenium, Scale, Webb Cloud infrastucture automation $40

09/09/15 Apperian Bantam, Bessemer, CommonAngels, FirstFloor, Intel, KP, LaunchCap, North Bridge Mobile application wrapping, distribution, integration and testing $12

08/05/15 GitHub Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Sequoia, SV Angel, Thrive Software development collaboration and distributed version control $251

07/21/15 Apprenda Ignition, NEA, Primary Venture Partners, Safeguard Scientifics Application management, infrastrucure and development $24

02/05/15 Sauce Labs Salesforce.com, Toba Capital, Triage Ventures Automated application functional and unit testing $15

01/28/15 UserTesting Accel, Clearstone, D. E. Shaw, Inspiration Ventures, Kern Whelan, OpenView Crowdsourced user experience testing tools $46

04/08/14 Atlassain Dragoneer, T. Rowe Price Product collaboration tools $150

($ millions)

Latest Round – Date 4/8/14 8/5/15 11/6/15 05/09/16 11/15/16 01/23/17

Latest Round – Size $150.0 $251.0 $113.0 $653.0 $71.0 $165.0

Post-Money Valuation $3,300.0 $2,000.0 $1,100.0 $2,750.0 $191.0 n/a

Amount Raised to Date $60.0 $350.5 $181.7 $758.0 $105.5 $174.0


Recent Capital Raises

Source: PitchBook and other publicly available sources

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Notable Past DevTools Funding Activity

Theme: ALM and developer collaboration

CollabNet provides a set of solutions for the development lifecycle,

including ALM; test, build and release automation; version control

and developer collaboration, and founded the Subversion open

source community. The company offers a version control solution

that supports remote development sites from a central repository;

SCM for centrally managing source code and code changes; and a

web-based environment for distributed collaboration, covering

waterfall, agile and continuous delivery development environments.

Employees: 303

Key Executives: Flint Brenton (CEO)

Investors: Vector, Industry

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Selected Companies for Discussion

Theme: IT infrastructure automation and DevOps

Chef provides cloud infrastructure automation solutions. Its open

source systems integration framework aims to help software

developers and engineers manage both on-premises and cloud

server provisioning by writing code. Compared with its competitors,

it uses a developer-oriented language to build the code or rules.

Employees: 175

Key Executives: Barry Crist (CEO)

Investors: Amplify, Battery, Citi Ventures, DFJ, Ignition, Scale, Webb

Investment Network

Theme: Bug tracking and content collaboration

Atlassian provides software development and collaboration tools to

help teams conceive, plan and launch products. The company’s Jira

product is a project management and issue tracking tool that helps

product teams manage issues, bugs, tasks and deadlines.

Confluence is a content collaboration tool enabling teams to create,

share and discuss documents and media. In 2014 the company

completed a $150m secondary fundraise at a $3.3bn valuation.

Employees: 980

Key Executives: Mike Cannon-Brookes (Co-CEO), Scott Farquhar (Co-

CEO), Jay Simons (President)

Investors: Accel, Dragoneer, T. Rowe Price

Theme: Open source software management and compliance

Black Duck is a provider of open source software management that

helps businesses eliminate security vulnerabilities, meet license

compliance obligations and limit operational risk. Black Duck also

offers audits that scan and assess open source code and its quality,

which is particularly relevant for businesses performing M&A due

diligence or addressing internal open source compliance

requirements.

Employees: 372

Key Executives: Lou Shipley (CEO), Stephen Gregorio (CFO)

Investors: General Catalyst, Split Rock

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Selected Companies for Discussion continued

Theme: Open-source SCM

GitHub provides a social network platform for programmers to share

code with friends, co-workers and complete strangers, making it

easier for individuals and teams to write better code, faster. The

solution is built for software development projects using the Git

revision control system and offers paid plans for private repositories

and free accounts for open source projects.

Employees: 225

Key Executives: Chris Wanstrath (CEO), Tom Preston-Werner (President)

Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel

Theme: Database release automation

Datical solutions deliver the database automation capabilities

technology executives need to get the most out of their Agile,

DevOps and Continuous Delivery investments. With Datical agile

database automation organizations can shorten the time it takes to

bring applications to market while eliminating the security

vulnerabilities, costly errors, data loss and downtime often

associated with current database deployment methods.

Employees: 35

Key Executives: Derek Hutson (CEO), Robert Reeves (CTO & Co-

Founder)

Investors: Austin Ventures, Mercury Fund, Mohr Davidow, S3 Ventures

Theme: Requirement planning and test management

Jama provides a product delivery platform that helps companies

bring complex products to market. The company’s collaborative

solution integrates requirements and test management. Distributed

teams can join real-time discussions, propose edits, flag issues and

electronically sign-off on requirements. All documents reside in one

centralized place and documents and product details can be reused

on future products.

Employees: 125

Key Executives: Scott Roth (CEO), Eric Winquist (CSO & Co-Founder)

Investors: Bend Venture Conference, Madrona, Oregon Angel Fund,

Trinity

Theme: Application release automation

Electric Cloud delivers solutions that automate and accelerate

software build-test-deploy processes. The company's products help

development organizations to speed time-to-market, boost

developer productivity and improve software quality while leveraging

the operational efficiencies provided by virtualized/cloud

infrastructures.

Employees: 150

Key Executives: Stevie Brodie (CEO)

Investors: Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt, RRE, Siemens Venture Capital,

USVP

Theme: Test automation

Perfecto provides cloud-based testing, automation and monitoring

solutions for mobile applications and websites. The company’s

MobileCloud Platform enables developers and testers to access and

control a range of the latest devices connected to live networks

around the world. It also provides a dedicated Private Handset

Cloud, which is an environment where users can access pre-and

post-launch handsets for development, testing and monitoring.

Employees: 250

Key Executives: Eran Yaniv (CEO), David Reichman (Chairman)

Investors: Carmel, FTV, Globespan, TCV, Vertex, Waisbein

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Theme: IT infrastructure lifecycle management

Puppet Labs provides IT automation software. The company's

products, Puppet and Puppet Enterprise, allow companies to

automate configuration management and infrastructure, cut costs

and help organizations better handle infrastructure management at

scale. Its solutions use a simple declarative language that system

administrators find easy to use.

Employees: 310

Key Executives: Luke Kanies (CEO)

Investors: Cisco Investments, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Radar

Partners, Triangle Peak, True Ventures, VMware

Theme: Source code version control and change management

Perforce provides a versatile software development platform for

implementing fast and scalable continuous delivery. The Perforce

product is applicable in a variety of industries and allow for hybrid

version control for both distributed and centralized workflows,

collaboration for both technical and non-technical staff, change

history tracking and enterprise Git management for more complete

Git management and social code review.

Employees: 230

Key Executives: Janet Dryer (CEO), Mark Ties (CFO)

Investors: Summit Partners

Theme: Low-code application development

OutSystems provides low-code development with advanced mobile

capabilities, enabling visual development of entire application

portfolios that easily integrate with existing systems. Comprehensive

metadata models enable configuration of application layers like

business processes, integration workflows, UIs, business logic, data

models, web services and APIs. Applications are developed using

native desktop tools and deployed on-premises, or in a private or

public cloud, and are usable with Web and mobile devices.

Employees: 612

Key Executives: Paulo Rosado (CEO)

Investors: North Bridge

Theme: Developer tools and OSS management

Rogue Wave provides software development tools for mission-critical

applications. The company’s portfolio of complementary, cross-

platform tools helps developers quickly write, test and deploy

software for complex applications. With Rogue Wave, customers

improve software quality and ensure code integrity, while shortening

development cycle times.

Employees: 400

Key Executives: Brian Pierce (CEO)

Investors: Audax

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Theme: Test automation and API testing

SmartBear Software provides a suite of tools for developers, testers,

and operations professionals for all stages of software development,

from software development, to QA & testing, to web & app

monitoring. The firm currently provides code review, automated

testing, performance/load testing, API testing, performance profiling

and development management tools. SmartBear Software’s tools

are highly flexible, and can be used for desktop, mobile, Web and

cloud-based applications.

Employees: 210

Key Executives: Justin Teague (CEO)

Investors: Francisco

Theme: Test automation

Sauce Labs provides a cloud-based mobile and web-testing platform,

based on popular open-source testing tools for the web (Selenium),

JavaScript (Jasmine, QUnit, YUI Test, Mocha) and mobile (Appium).

The company’s automated testing platform lets users run functional

and unit tests on their native mobile applications, mobile web

applications and desktop applications across multiple browsers in

parallel without setting up or maintaining test infrastructure.

Employees: 181

Key Executives: Charles Ramsey (CEO)

Investors: Adams Street, Centerview Capital, IVP

Theme: Low-code application development

QuickBase provides a low-code development platform enabling

businesses to create, customize and deploy business applications of

all sizes, without compromising IT governance and controls.

QuickBase is based on a public cloud-only, multi-tenant, shared-

resource, cloud-native architecture. QuickBase also offers access to

hundreds of prebuilt apps, which businesses can use either off-the-

shelf or as a design-pattern for their own custom applications.

Employees: 254

Key Executives: Rick Willett (CEO)

Investors: Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe

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Theme: Application Lifecycle Management

VersionOne provides Agile application lifecycle management

software designed to guide and manage the entire development

chain, from idea to delivery. The company’s platform was purpose-

built for Agile projects, and serves as an “all-in-one” management

tool for projects and teams of any size. VersionOne is available both

on premise and as a cloud service, and is pre-built with integrations

to most commonly-used development tools to create a single,

synchronized development environment.

Employees: 120

Key Executives: Robert Holler (CEO)

Investors: LLR, OpenView

Theme: Java development lifecycle productivity

ZeroTurnaround provides productivity enhancing solutions for the

Java community. The company’s product for developers enables

them to view code changes without redeploying the application

server, while operations teams can run a software to eliminate

server downtime during live-app updates. This helps eliminate the

build/test/redeploy phases of the development cycle and allows for

continuous delivery.

Employees: 175

Key Executives: Jevgeni Kabanov (CEO)

Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Western Technology Investment

Theme: Enterprise software test automation

Tricentis provides software testing products that enable enterprises

to achieve unprecedented automation rates while minimizing

business-related risks. The solutions empower organizations to

systematically align software testing with business needs, so they

can harness technology change while optimizing cost and efficiency.

The company’s testing solution encompasses risk-based testing, test

data management and provisioning, service virtualization and quality

assurance services.

Employees: 187

Key Executives: Sandeep Johri (CEO)

Investors: Insight

Theme: Application release automation

XebiaLabs develops enterprise-scale continuous delivery and

DevOps software, providing companies with the visibility, automation

and control to deliver software faster and with less risk. Its tools

allow users to manage the most advanced release pipelines,

automate complex application deployments and analyze test results

across multiple tools and support release decisions.

Employees: 90

Key Executives: Derek Langone (CEO)

Investors: Updata Partners

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